I've never tried, I was a hotmail user when they started the IM.
Friends have let their MSN email accounts lapse but their IM signons
still work. I know with Yahoo you can use your Groups ID, I don't have
a yahoo email address with that account.
Janine
Evan Platt wrote:
> Hmmm.. News to me. Last I used MSN, you could only create / sign in
> with a address on one of their domains - hotmail, msn, etc.
>> Thanks for the info.
>> At 05:15 PM 2/4/2009, you wrote:
>>> That's actually not correct. With MSN, there is no restriction as to
>> which domain you may use. Usernames can be any email address. In fact,
>> none of mine are at Microsoft's domains. Evan Platt's information was
>> completely inaccurate.
>>>> What does have to be the case is that you have an MSN / Windows Live
>> Messenger account of some kind with an email address and password, then
>> you will need to add that account in Pidgin, and once connected, you
>> will be able to add any person's email address if they have registered
>> an MSN account with it.
>>